This NYT Op-Ed Writer Apparently

…didn’t get the memo.

Islam and the West at War

After a Danish movie director at a seminar on “Art, Blasphemy and Freedom of Expression” and a Danish Jew guarding a synagogue were shot dead in Copenhagen, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, the prime minister of Denmark, uttered a familiar trope:

“We are not in the middle of a battle between Islam and the West. It’s not a battle between Muslims and non-Muslims. It’s a battle between values based on the freedom of the individual and a dark ideology.”

This statement — with its echoes of President Obama’s vague references to “violent extremists” uncoupled from the fundamentalist Islam to which said throat-cutting extremists pledge allegiance — scarcely stands up to scrutiny.

It is empty talk.

categories Humanity...or the Lack Thereof, Media, Nanny State, People, Politics, World Stuff | | datetime February 16, 2015 9:42 am

3 Responses to “This NYT Op-Ed Writer Apparently”

  1. leelu says:
    February 16, 2015 at 12:02 pm

    It’s an effing religious war.

    Period.

  2. aelfheld says:
    February 16, 2015 at 5:37 pm

    77 years on and the appeasers are more numerous than ever.

  3. Syd B. says:
    February 17, 2015 at 10:54 am

    The right believe what they see.

    The left see what they believe.

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